[sudo-discuss] Microcontroller Hacking Night - Tomorrow night!!!

[rusty lindgren]

+1 for Naomi.

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Naomi Most <pnaomi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anybody have a robot arm?  I want to build something to turn the tape over
> in the radio room.
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> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Hol Gaskill <hol at gaskill.com> wrote:
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>> It's that time again folks!
>>
>> Come one, come all, experienced "i-can-solder-while-eating-a-burrito" and
>> "what's-a-breadboard?" types alike, to the 3rd bi-weekly Microcontroller
>> Hacking Night @ sudo room.  I'll be there around 5:30 and plan to stay
>> pretty late - not 2AM like last time though...i hope.  Feel free to come
>> and go at your convenience since there will be many projects going through
>> various phases.  If there are a few people needing to build controllers to
>> get started, once critical mass is reached I can guide people through the
>> process of building a controller on a breadboard ala the Real Bare Bones
>> Board schematic.  There are a few projects that are ongoing for people to
>> join, including adding a keypad for the doorman, various 2-axis servo
>> control applications (solar panels, camera, radio dish, dare i say
>> laser???), a semi-automatic beer brewing controller, onboard camera for a
>> model rocket, Raspberry Pi to Arduino interfacing and more!  Also I have
>> some raw ingredients that can be used to make contro
>>  llers from scratch, so even complete newbies can come and with a little
>> bit of assembly time start working up the learning curve independently if
>> they choose.
>>
>> We also have an etherpad for jotting down project info.  This is intended
>> as a way for people to flesh out what subsystems are relevant to each
>> project and encourage collaboration where there might be overlaps in
>> technology.  You don't have to be interested in the entirety of a project
>> to get involved - just help solve the one facet you're interested in, and
>> everyone can fold it back into projects more relevant to their own work.
>> https://pad.riseup.net/p/microbotics
>> Last time there was a small discussion on compatibility between projects
>> - i think it would be interesting to come up with some hardware and
>> software standards that we can use in projects at sudo room to give more
>> modularity and minimize the rework required to port a subsystem over to a
>> new project.  Like common pinouts, connectors, libraries, and communication
>> protocols for drop-in compatibility.
>>
>> Calendar Info and Facebook link below:
>>
>> https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/microcontroller-hack-night/?instance_id=55282
>> https://www.facebook.com/events/330870340348721/
>>
>> Hope to see y'all there!
>> Hol
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Cheers,

Rusty Lindgren
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